Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy by Jerry J. Bigner

The Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy provides a unique and important contribution to the LGBT clinical literature. It is a comprehensive and specific overview, spanning thirty chapters, of the diverse and complex issues involved in LGBT couple and family therapy. It is the first comprehensive overview of LGBT couple and family therapy in almost fifteen years, and only the second in the history of the field. It discusses in depth clinical issues with LGBT couples and families (including raising LGBT children, coming out issue, and elderly LGBT couple issues), sex therapy, ethical and training issues, and special issues such as health, domestic violence, substance abuse, and spirituality. Because of the breadth of the book, its specificity, and the expertise of the contributing authors and editors, it will be the definitive Handbook on LGBT Couple and Family Therapy.

Giammatti, Green, GLBTQ Couple and Family Therapy: History and Future Directions. Section I: Clinical Issues with LGBT Couples. Tunnell, Gay Male Couple Therapy: An Attachment-Based Model. Connolly, Lesbian Couple Therapy. Bradford, Affirmative Bisexual Couple Therapy. Malpas, Can Couples Change Gender? Couple Therapy with Transgender People and their Partners. Section II: Sex Therapy with LGBT Couples. Rutter, Sex Therapy for Gay Male Couples: Affirming Strengths and Stemming Challenges. Cobin, Angello, Sex Therapy with Lesbian Couples. Lev, Sennott, Trans-Sexual Desire in Differently Gendered Bodies. Section III: Clinical Issues with LGBT Families. Mitchell, Coming Out to Family: Adrift in a Sea of Potential Meanings. Tasker, Malley, Working with LGBT Families. Kuvalanka, The Kids May Be All Right, but Some Might Still End Up in Your Office: Working with Children of LGBTQ Parents. Fish, Harvey, Raising Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Youth: An Affirmative Family Therapy Approach. Coolhart, Supporting Transgender Youth and their Families in Therapy: Facing Challenges and Harnessing Strengths. Gianino, Novelle, Considerations for Assessment and Intervention with Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents and their Children. Lynch, McMahon-Klosterman, The Gay and Lesbian Stepfamily: Past and Present Research and Implications for Therapy. Blando, Counseling Lesbian and Gay Individuals, Couples, and Families in Late Life. Section IV: Special Issues, Problems, and Populations in LGBT Couple and Family Therapy. Grever, Helping Heterosexual Spouses Cope when their Husbands or Wives Come Out. Singh, Harper, Intercultural Issues in LGBTQQ Couple and Family Therapy. Blank, Asencio, Descartes, Issues in the Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People for LGBT Couple and Family Therapy. Rostosky, Johnson, Riggle, Spirituality and Religion in Same-Sex Couples' Therapy. Linville, Chronister, Marsiglio, Brown, Treatment of Partner Violence in Gay and Lesbian Relationships. Anderson, Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in LGBT Couples and Families. Kerewsky, LGBT Couple Enrichment. Lyness, Therapeutic Considerations in Same-Sex Divorce. Section V: Training Issues. Carlson, McGeorge, LGB Affirmative Training Strategies for CFT Faculty: Preparing Heterosexual Students to Work with LGB Clients. Long, Grote, Queer Supervision. Section VI: Ethical Issues in LGBT Couple and Family Therapy. Riggs, Ethical Issues in LGBT Couple and Family Therapy. Serovich, Grafsky, Gangamma, Research on Reorientation Therapy. Lutes, McDonough, Helping Individuals and Families Recover from Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and Heterosexism. Reczek, Rothblum, A Little Bit Pregnant? The Ethics of Same-Sex Marriage.